Senior Project Manager

Smart Tech Skills LLC; Tallahassee (FL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work-from-home options

Job summary

Smart Tech Skills LLC in Tallahassee, FL seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead multiple IT projects under Workforce Information Technology Solutions (WITS). You will ensure governance, planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement while applying PMBOK, Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methods.

The role requires 7+ years managing complex cross-functional initiatives, vendor oversight, and strong reporting capabilities to executives. Flexible work-from-home options are available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years IT experience with complex cross-functional projects.
• Experience with PMO governance frameworks and multiple technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple IT projects through full lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with Florida Rule 60GG governance and reporting.
• Develop charters, schedules, WBS, risk registers, and status reports.
• Manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and issues.
• Coordinate across WITS, business units, vendors, and executives.
• Facilitate governance reviews and executive briefings.

Skills

Project Management

PMP

PMBOK

Agile

Waterfall

Hybrid Methodologies

Risk Management

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Resource Planning

Vendor Management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

SharePoint

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Visio

Job description

Location: Tallahassee, Fl

Experience Level: Senior Manager (7+ Years Project Management Experience)

Position Overview

The Senior Project Manager will lead and oversee multiple medium-to-large-scale IT projects supporting Workforce Information Technology Solutions (WITS). This role is responsible for project governance, planning, execution, risk management, stakeholder engagement, quality assurance, and compliance with Florida Rule 60GG project management standards.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing complex cross-functional technology initiatives, leading enterprise project teams, overseeing vendors, and applying Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, and PMBOK methodologies to successfully deliver business and technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent IT projects through the full project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with Florida Rule 60GG governance, reporting, documentation, and oversight requirements.
• Develop and maintain project charters, schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), communication plans, risk registers, and status reports.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Conduct project health assessments, risk analyses, and performance reviews.
• Coordinate project activities across WITS, business units, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
• Review and process change requests, including impact assessments and recommendations.
• Facilitate executive briefings, stakeholder meetings, workshops, and project governance reviews.
• Prepare weekly project status reports including progress, risks, issues, milestones, quality metrics, and mitigation activities.
• Support Workforce Modernization initiatives and enterprise strategic objectives.
• Manage project quality assurance and quality control activities.
• Develop mitigation strategies for project risks and issues.
• Provide project management coaching, mentoring, and best-practice guidance.
• Support business analysis activities including requirements gathering, process mapping, workflow analysis, and stakeholder interviews.
• Coordinate resource planning, staffing needs, budgets, vendor services, and technology resources.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams throughout the SDLC.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Project Management certification (PMP or equivalent) required.
• Minimum 7 years of IT experience.
• Minimum 7 years managing complex cross-functional projects.
• Experience managing projects across multiple technologies and business domains.
• Experience working with enterprise PMO and governance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • PMBOK Methodologies
  • Agile Delivery
  • Waterfall Methodology
  • Hybrid Project Management
  • Change Management
  • Risk Management
  • Resource Management
  • Stakeholder Management

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting government or public-sector organizations.
• Experience managing Workforce Modernization or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Experience managing vendors and third-party service providers.
• Experience conducting business process analysis and requirements management.

Technical Environment

• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Visio
• SharePoint
• Microsoft Teams
• Enterprise PMO Tools
• Risk & Issue Tracking Tools

Core Skills

• Project Management
• PMO Governance
• PMP
• PMBOK
• Agile
• Waterfall
• Hybrid Methodologies
• SDLC
• Risk Management
• Change Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Resource Planning
• Vendor Management
• Business Analysis
• Process Mapping
• Executive Reporting
• Quality Assurance
• Project Controls
• Microsoft Project
• SharePoint

Flexible work from home options available.